Reputed Montreal Mafia figure in court

MONTREAL – Tony Mucci, 55, of Boucherville, reputed to be an influential figure in the Montreal Mafia, appeared before Judge Jean-Paul Braun Friday afternoon. He faces 10 charges in all, including two for allegedly being in possession of a weapon designed to repell bears.
He is also charged with being in possession of a prohibited weapon [...]

Reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto loses U.S. appeal

MONTREAL – Reputed Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto has lost an appeal in a U.S. court where he was seeking a chance at an earlier release from prison. He is serving a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty in a racketeering case involving the 1981 murders of three Mafia captains in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier this [...]

Mafia hitman reveals his code for killings

Ken Murdock’s voice is surprisingly polite when he discusses the dos-and-don’ts of being a hitman for the mob.
Murdock, 47, refrains from using words like “etiquette” or “ethics” while revealing the personal code of conduct he followed while carrying out murders for the Hamilton mob.
One strict rule was to kill his victims away from their wives [...]

On the run in Calabria

As police fan out across Italy in a bid to shut down the notorious ‘Ndrangheta, Adrian Humphreys looks at the Mafia investigation’s Canadian connections.
For the past five years, Antonio Coluccio ushered guests through tall glass doors into his office on the ground floor of his million-dollar home north of Toronto, where a five-foot-tall oil painting [...]

Italian Mafia probe shines light on GTA mob

A top Mafia boss flew to Toronto in an underworld detente mission aimed at quelling tensions between GTA mobsters and rebellious underlings in Thunder Bay, Italian court documents show.
The underworld peace mission last year came to light in what’s considered the biggest Italian police offensive in more than a decade against the ’Ndrangheta, a strain [...]

Former Toronto resident among suspects in raid on Mafia

For the past five years, Antonio Coluccio ushered guests through tall glass doors into his office on the ground floor of his million-dollar home north of Toronto, where a five-foot-tall oil painting of his father, a Mafia boss murdered before his sons were old enough to remember him, glared down at visitors.
On Tuesday, Mr. Coluccio [...]

Police watch Montreal Mafia funeral

Montreal police say they will be keeping a close eye on funeral services for Agostino Cuntrera, a reputed mobster gunned down last week in the city’s Saint-Leonard borough.
Cuntrera, 66, will be laid to rest Monday morning at the Église Notre-Dame-du-Carmel in Saint-Leonard.
The reputed head of Montreal’s troubled Rizzuto crime clan was ambushed June 29 in [...]

Member of Montreal Mafia family gunned down

One of the longest-serving Sicilian Mafiosi in Canada, 66-year old Agostino Cuntrera, has been gunned down in Montreal.
Mr. Cuntrera was shot and killed outside a wholesale food business he owned in the city’s St. Leonard borough at about 4 p.m. yesterday. His driver, who police said was in his forties, was also shot outside Distribution [...]

Rizzuto plays get-out-of-jail-early card

Reputed mob boss files U.S. appeal Wants time off for good behaviour
Amid signs the criminal organization he once led in Montreal is in serious trouble, reputed mob boss Vito Rizzuto has quietly filed for an appeal that, if successful, could see him released from a U.S. penitentiary this year.
Rizzuto, 64, is serving his sentence at [...]

Reputed Montreal Mafia figure, Gallo, ordered deported to Italy

MONTREAL – Moreno Gallo, a man reputed to have had considerable influence in the Montreal Mafia, has been ordered to be deported to Italy after a brief hearing Thursday morning.
Dianne Tordof, a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, determined that Gallo’s case met all the requirements for a deportation, even though he has lived [...]

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